To the OP.

I don't see where Find or FindNext has any role to play in deleting rows
that don't contain some prescribed value (except in a most roundabout
fashion).

Maybe that will save you some time.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Don Guillett" wrote:

As mentioned, you need to use cells(r,c) but if your strings to find are all
in the same column then
sub deleterows()
for i =1 to cells(rows.count,"a").end(xlup).row
if cells(i,"a")="NAME:" or cells(i,"a")="SUBJ:" then rows(i).delete
next i
end sub

If not in the same column, look in the vba help index for FINDNEXT. There is
a good example. There is no reason to look at EVERY cell.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Chris" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have this following macro which I want to scan through all cells in
my worksheet and delete all rows that don't contain the keywords
"NAME:" and that don't contain the keywords "SUBJ:" I keep getting an
error on "test = Application.Range(r,c).Text" It says "method Range of
object _Application failed" Does anyone know how to get the text from
each cell and compare it to the strings I have? Thanks

Sub DeleteR()
Dim bool As Boolean
For r = Application.Rows.Count To 1 Step -1
bool = False
For c = Application.Columns.Count To 1 Step -1
Dim test As String
test = Application.Range(r, c).Text
If test = "NAME:" Then
'mark bool as true (we found a table name row)
bool = True
End If
If test = "SUBJ:" Then
'mark bool as true (we found a subject area row)
bool = True
End If
Next c
If bool = False Then
'Delete entire row
Application.Rows(r).EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next r
End Sub